Life Cycle Manager

The Life Cycle Manager acts as a project lead at Site or Platform (e.g. ESO) for STO manufacturing projects during the Life Cycle of a given product, e. g. product launches, changes, transfers, pruning, divestment, and other special projects, ensuring coordination across global and local functions in alignment with Global / regional functions as appropriate.

Your Key Responsibilities :

Your responsibilities include, but are not limited to:

• Setup and lead cross-functional project teams to ensure timely implementation of all on-going life cycle activities according to defined strategy.
• Identify potential risks and take measures to prevent occurrence, communicate project progress and deviations as per project responsibility.
• Ensure escalation pathway is followed for projects with problem status, understand impacts (financial, supply, strategic) and define appropriate actions to mitigate / address those. Follow predefined meeting structure.
• Represent Sandoz Technical Operations Site / Platform in cross-functional teams to ensure coordination of all activities at site level and E2E responsibility of Launch & Transfer project execution, from handover until launch supply / 1st supply incl. resupply.
• Align inventory level for launch products with responsible function (e.g. for tenders in specific countries).
• Align bridging-/contingency- stocks for changes, transfers, pruning and divestment projects with responsible function.
• Within Life Cycle Projects, responsible to define the scope and objectives, as well milestone planning to ensure project closure within agreed timelines.
• Ensure Projects are timely captured and monitored on a regular basis (up to date) in respective tools.

What you’ll bring to the role :

Essential Requirements:

• University degree in science (chemistry, pharmacy, or chemical engineering), and/or business administration.
• Minimum 3 years, experience in various pharmaceutical functions e.g. supply chain / production and/or technical development.
• Minimum 3 years in project management experience.
• Good understanding of pharmaceutical supply chain processes and Lean philosophy.
• Intercultural experience and ability to act in a complex and rapidly changing matrixed business environment.
• Fluency in oral and written French is mandatory. Due to the nature of our operations, oral and written fluency in English is required for regular communication with customers, partners, and/or colleagues, whether in Canada or internationally.

• Clear, effective communication skills and cross-functional collaboration.
• Strategic and analytical thinking and with stakeholder management experience.
• Strong project, time, and priority management skills.
• Agility to quickly adapt and reprioritize in a fast-paced environments and adjusting plans in response to evolving data, regulations and/or market needs.

Desirable Requirements:

• PMP Certification.
• Fluency in Spanish/Portuguese.
• Experience with Project Management software i.e. Miro, Gantt, Microsoft Project.

You’ll receive :

• A minimum of three weeks’ vacation.
• Paid time off in addition to your annual vacation and statutory holidays.
• Time back between Christmas and New Year’s Day with full pay.
• Group pension plan with substantial employer contributions.
• Generous and flexible group insurance coverage through our private plan.
• Employee and family assistance.
• Hybrid work formula offered.
• Telemedicine services.
• Parental leave – supplemental top-up payments up to 100% of base salary, regardless of gender or sexual orientation.
• Career enhancement and development, including learning, training and professional recognition opportunities.

Why Sandoz?

Generic and Biosimilar medicines are the backbone of the global medicines industry. Sandoz, a leader in this sector, provided more than 900 million patient treatments across 100+ countries in 2024 and while we are proud of this achievement, we have an ambition to do more!

With investments in new development capabilities, production sites, new acquisitions, and partnerships, we have the opportunity to shape the future of Sandoz and help more patients gain access to low-cost, high-quality medicines, sustainably.

Our momentum is powered by an open, collaborative culture driven by our talented and ambitious colleagues, who, in return for applying their skills experience an agile and collegiate environment with impactful, flexible-hybrid careers, where diversity is welcomed and where personal growth is supported!

Join us!

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